In the past year or so, I’ve been on a roll using this blog for various “firsts” — first nonfiction prose series (On Hoosier Gridirons), first recap of photos of a specific subject matter (Garfield Park … in Pictures), first one-post recap of a long-running, intermittent series (Indy Acoustic Cafe Series) and most recently, the first post devoted to a musical review (Søren Bebe Trio et al).
So in that vein, today’s post marks another first here at Photo Potpourri: The first devoted entirely to the work of another shooter. Well, it is the first such post since I halted the yearlong monthly series "Photographer in the Spotlight" in the very early years of this blog.
The photos you see in today’s post are the work of Lee Ann, my better half, who was inspired by the change of season fall colors to create these line pattern compositions — all on the confines of our wooded property. She took all of these with her iPhone 14 Pro Max.
Lee Ann has mentioned many times that the only period of her working career that she felt eager to go to work and also indulge her yen for artistic creativity was the few years she oversaw a crew of traveling portrait photographers on the East Coast, trying to earn a living as a single mom.
I mention this to establish that she has a photography background, so compositions you see here come to her honestly. I didn't do any edits or cropping on these, deciding to leave them in their original compositional element ... with one exception. I rotated the seventh photo below one degree to the left to make it horizontal.
The last photo in this post actually was taken from inside the house looking out into the yard, using the window blinds as a geometric compositional aid. The flowers are from plants Lee Ann purchased for placement on the back deck. The background lines you see in the first few photos are the creases in the deck flooring.
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